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[falcongrrl]

*oooohs* I really like this one, from whitecrow0.


Please play?

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The idea is that you answer in the comments below, then post the questions in your own journal for others to answer (if you want to).

Questions about you:

1. If you could design your life the way you want it to be, with no restrictions, what would it look like in 5 years? (Location, work, family, vacations, anything else that comes to mind)

2. What things have you not yet learned to do that you think would be fascinating or useful?

3. What do you need and/or want from your lover?

4. If you had to move to another country for one year, which one intrigues you the most?

5. What things did you learn about growing older that surprised you?

Recommend the best to me:

1. I'd like to try new things, learn more, escape now and again, see festivals, read something brilliant, hear cool music. Will you recommend a few things I might enjoy?

2. Give me a character's name for my writing.

3. Give me something new to drink.

4. Give me words that are relevant to you.

5. Give me a subject to research.

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

1. I recommend the music of Varttina: Finnish folk rock, and very nifty.

2. Srura!

3. It's more of a comfort food for me, when I've got a cold: hot black tea with a big sloop of frozen orange juice, and honey.

4. These days, "traff" shows up in my writing a lot.

5. Plate tectonics.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Very nice recommendations--I'm curious about why you chose plate tectonics, though.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

'Cause on the first Wednesday of November, I took a day off work to browse for fun in the Katonah town library, and the most fun book I found was about plate tectonics, and felt very free.

Okay, am playing... :)

[winnett.livejournal.com]

Questions about you:

1. If you could design your life the way you want it to be, with no restrictions, what would it look like in 5 years? (Location, work, family, vacations, anything else that comes to mind)

I would be living in Europe. I would have finally got my groove going and found my writing style, am a published author and a well read one at that. I would finally have found someone to connect with, my 'soul mate' for lack of a better word. I will be happy.

2. What things have you not yet learned to do that you think would be fascinating or useful?

I want to learn more languages.

3. What do you need and/or want from your lover?

I need a connection, a spark. I haven't found it yet...

4. If you had to move to another country for one year, which one intrigues you the most?

Well I figured England would be a good first try, though I liked Austria too. Not sure where else, maybe Australia, maybe somewhere in E. Europe.

5. What things did you learn about growing older that surprised you?

I don't notice that I am older. :)

Recommend the best to me:

1. I'd like to try new things, learn more, escape now and again, see festivals, read something brilliant, hear cool music. Will you recommend a few things I might enjoy?

Outdoorsy skills: Medicinal plant identification. Birding. Tracking. Understanding how the native peoples got along. Barbara Kingsolver books. The Soundtrack for .hack//sign.

2. Give me a character's name for my writing.

Aretha Bean

3. Give me something new to drink.

Vitamine Water

4. Give me words that are relevant to you.

Ah... lost, working, squee

5. Give me a subject to research.

The history of modern music. :) That is something I want to research. How certain genre's developed, who inspired who, etc.

Re: Okay, am playing... :)

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Prodigal Summer's one of my favorite books ever. And I wish you much luck at finding your soulmate. *hugs*

[lazarusrat.livejournal.com]

Questions:
1. Big ol' house in California, with plenty of room for friends to crash in, no job, spend my time chasing hobbies and hanging out with friends, a bajillion pets.
2. Other languages, car upkeep, linguistics (started in college, but I'd like to get back to it).
3. Experementalism, freedom, appreciation of movies and video games, and time to chase hobbies and hang with friends.
4. Japan (how furry of me).
5. Hmmm. I'm not easily surprised. I can't honestly think of anything.
Recommendations:
1. Linguistics, if you're not already into it. Language is the shit. Cool music? Soundtrack to the Young Sherlock Holmes movie, Fall Out Boy, Ani DiFranco.
2. Alloysius. The answer is always Alloysius.
3. Dill pickle juice! :9
4. Love, beauty, fascination, loyalty, is (not should), rain.
5. Oh, I already blew my wad on linguistics. Hmm. Phosphorescence.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I love Ani. I'll have to check out your other musical recommendations. :-)

I took a linguistics class in college, History of the English Language, and I loved it. I learned so many things just in that one class! I toyed with the idea of pursuing a graduate degree in Linguistics (my undergrad degree was in English w/a lit concentration), but I never did.

Re: phosphorescence...One night I was at New Smyrna Beach with some friends, and there was this blue phosphorescent algae in the water. We splashed about with it, a blue luminous glow covering our skin, organic glitter.

It was an incredible experience. We dubbed the algae 'the coolest fucking things in the world,' and they were. I'd love to see them again one day.

[jakebe.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'll play along!

Questions:
1. My ideal living situation would be an off-the-grid commune in norhern Oregon or possibly northeastern Washington. All of my friends would live with me, there'd be a huge building that served as a community center/library, and we'd have mastered the art of comfortable but low-impact living.

2. I have not yet become fluent in Russian or French, and it would be very lovely to learn those. Also, getting a better handle on philosophy (both Eastern and Western).

3. Someone that I am comfortable being myself with, who makes me feel loved and appreciated no matter how left-of-center I might be. Thankfully, I have that.

4. Japan is the painfully obvious choice, but I'd also love to move to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

5. That it's actually very pleasant. I can't wait to do it some more. :D

Recommendations:
1. If you haven't heard of it by now, there's this festival called The Burning Man that they have out in the southwestern desert every year. What it is now is quite different from what it was then, but basically it's a town that pops up for a few weeks and everyone converges and lives the exact way they want to. There's music, storytelling, performance art, costuming, and all sorts of weirdness. It'd be a lovely thing to go to.

2. Jaekob Berothimax.

3. Yogi Tea(tm!) Ginger tea. It has the most awesome ginger burn going down. :9

4. appreciation, contentment, violins, eschatology, timeless.

5. Hmmm. For some reason I think you find cryptozoology fascinating. It's silliness combined with just enough hard science to make it...somewhat possible, if far-fetched.

-J

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I want visitation rights to the commune. :-) And the ginger tea does sound yummy; I'll have to try some.

The festival sounds neat, too! One day...

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

Questions about you:

1. If you could design your life the way you want it to be, with no restrictions, what would it look like in five years? I'd be living in the northwest--loosely defined as anywhere between Napa Valley and Seattle--and working at some job with flexible hours and, more importantly, flexible working location. I want to be able to telecommute from home or a coffee shop. I'd love to have my own house, even a modest one, with enough space to have a home office and to keep clutter at bay. And, I'd love to be able to travel more (i.e., with both more time and more resources).

2. What things have you not yet learned to do that you think would be fascinating or useful? Organize my time enough to get things done! Beyond that, there are some geek programming technologies I'd love to know, and I'd actually love to learn about letterpress printing and book binding.

3. What do you need and/or want from your lover? "Existence" comes to mind. More seriously, I think intellectual engagement and a sense of adventure.

4. If you had to move to another country for one year, which one intrigues you the most? Mexico.

5. What things did you learn about growing older that surprised you? That you can't really be a 36-year-old and an 18-year-old simultaneously. Youth may be a state of mind more than a physical age, but your state of mind comes from all of your experiences. I can't look at a movie or a book "with the eyes of a child," as we're frequently exhorted to--and I don't think anyone else who isn't a child can, either. This isn't a bad thing, though. Nor is it a good thing. It's just a true thing. (Paradoxically, I've noticed recently that the friends and acquaintances of mine who work the hardest at being cynical, bitter and jaded are people who are one or two decades younger than I am.)

Recommend the best to me:

1. Recommend a few things I might enjoy. Somewhere back in my journal recently I wrote about books on another meme, I know. You might want to see what museums and festivals there are in the greater Orlando area; I only realized there was a big museum district there shortly before I moved out of the state.

2. Give me a character's name for my writing. That's tough for me, as it depends on what the writing in question is! Even though in real life we don't choose our names, on first encounter of the name alone we would probably paint very different mental images of "Miramar Dupree" and "Agatha Bernstein."

3. Give me something new to drink. One ounce amaretto and one ounce Chambord added to Godiva hot chocolate. (I've never had this, but it sounds good.)

4. Give me words that are relevant to you. Introspect, roam, outline.

5. Give me a subject to research. Caribbean cuisine.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Mexico was on my short list, too. There's a little fishing town I'd love to go back to called Puerto Morelos. Not too far from Cancun, but extremely small and lazy, with amazing seafood (as you might expect.)

Agreed on the aging observations. I think the most difficult time I have with hanging out with folks younger than me is when I do run across that jaded, cynical view of life. I just don't feel like I have time for that, and I don't consider it cool...more annoying than anything, really. ;-)

[holophote.livejournal.com]

Answers:

1. I'd like a custom-built, steel-frame house with solar panels, a wood-burning stove, plant-based furniture, composting toilet and a large back garden (other than that, I'm not picky;). Maybe a couple of dogs. My primary source of income would be writing, and the rest I don't want to say, for fear of jinxing it!

2. Driving, speaking rudimentary Korean and ASL, scuba diving, identifying edible wild plants, setting a broken bone, throwing an attacker, stickfighting and hand-to-hand combat (wow, my mind is on combat for some reason today).

3. A lot of physical affection (hugs and backrubs are king), a love of knowledge, some libido and the patience of a saint. ;)

4. India.

5. I didn't expect that I'd care for people as much as I do.

Recommendations:

1. I like Hidria Spacefolk. http://www.hidriaspacefolk.st/
And Ozric Tentacles. http://ozrics.com

2. Da'ath Rakshasa.

3. It's a bit of an acquired taste, but kombucha! Preferably Synergy's Guava Goddess.

4. Associate, effusive, liminal.

5. Erm... deep sea creatures?

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I love your words. Liminal's also one of my favorites.

[meepkitty.livejournal.com]

Sure, make me think! ;p

In five years, I would like to think we are financially comfortable. Fox is a web developer for a very successful company and I am possibly working in the same place, making much more. We take one month off each year to travel, putting our preferred vacation spots in a jar and drawing one each year. Not sure about kidlets, possibly.

I want to learn Italian and to be more competent at knitting.

I am jealous of his laptop (sad as that sounds) and I guess I would like a bit more attention. (Fox does not ignore me, I guess I am just high-maintenance)

Australia! Why? I've never been and I would love to go. But, only if Fox came with me and I could come back often to visit my parents.

That things I thought really mattered were inconsequential. I had to relearn what was truly important.

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Ren Faires, State Fairs, check with your local tourist bureau to find out about events nearby. Little things like farmers' markets and flea markets. :)

Shonda Bluefeather

double bergamot Earl Grey tea!

whimsical, worrywart, salacious

historical unsolved murders (Patricia Cornwell wrote a great book on Jack the Ripper)

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Where do you find Earl Grey with double bergamot? Sounds yummy!!

Ren Faire is a good idea; I've never been, but I bet I would love it.

[meepkitty.livejournal.com]

You would SO love the Ren Faire! If you make it to Baltimore in the late summer/early fall, I will take you to the MD Ren Faire.

As for the tea....Stash Tea is great

http://shopstashtea.com/112077.html

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

1. If you could design your life the way you want it to be, with no restrictions, what would it look like in 5 years? (Location, work, family, vacations, anything else that comes to mind)
In my dreams? I'd be living in the Northwest... and I'm honestly not sure on which side of the border; I can imagine being in Washington or in British Colombia. I'd be in a house of my own, somewhere within striking distance of the city but remote enough that I couldn't see neighbors and the woods were in my back yard. I don't think I'd be working, at least formally -- I'd be well-off, at least, just staying at home and focussing on my own projects, releasing Nifty Little Things here and there.

2. What things have you not yet learned to do that you think would be fascinating or useful?
To put forth concerted and continuous effort into my projects -- to 'do my homework', as it were. On a somewhat more shallow level, I'd love to better learn Japanese, or possibly to draw; the former's certainly possible, the latter a little less likely. But this is a question with thousands of answers.

3. What do you need and/or want from your lover?
I wish I knew. *smile* 'What do you want?' is one of the hardest questions for me to answer. Comfort, companionship, and perhaps a little bit of space when I need it -- it's a difficult thing.

4. If you had to move to another country for one year, which one intrigues you the most?
Japan, unquestionably -- but I don't think I'd manage to survive there for a full year. Not immersion-style, at least, not without a native guide. So probably Canada.

5. What things did you learn about growing older that surprised you?
The biggest one was that getting older really doesn't mean growing up -- and that doesn't just mean skipping the negative parts, it also means all the 'good' facets of that. I'm still not comfortable with my place in the world, I still don't feel like I understand much, and I still don't really know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

Recommend the best to me:
1. I'd like to try new things, learn more, escape now and again, see festivals, read something brilliant, hear cool music. Will you recommend a few things I might enjoy?
Yes. :-) And I'll do a lot more of it than I have been, too -- just ask.

2. Give me a character's name for my writing.
Aquinas? *chuckle* This is surprisingly difficult. I could give you names of my characters, but surprisingly many of them don't translate well to print.

3. Give me something new to drink.
Fresh cider -- truly fresh, bought roadside from the person who grew the apples. *grin* I'm sure you'd tell me the same about orange juice.

4. Give me words that are relevant to you.
Synthesis. Love. Magical realism. (I don't know that that counts as a word, but...)

5. Give me a subject to research.
Information theory as it pertains to mathematical logic and godel's theorem -- the magic names are Komolgorov and Chaitin.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, I probably wouldn't tell you the same about orange juice, 'cause I have a thing about not liking pulp.

Though...now that I think of it...what's really good is peeling an orange (the outer orange part) but leaving the white layer (as much as you can), cutting a hole in the top, squeezing it and drinking out the juice that way. When I was a child, my dad used to pick oranges from one of my grandfather's groves and do that for me with a pocketknife. It's kind of criminal, in the sense of wasting the whole orange (though I guess all juice is that way), but soooo good.

#3 under questions doesn't sound so difficult, really. Maybe the trick is just recognizing when you're happy. ;-)

[rancourt.livejournal.com]

Questions about you:

1. If you could design your life the way you want it to be, with no restrictions, what would it look like in 5 years? (Location, work, family, vacations, anything else that comes to mind)

Meet the youngest philosophy professor at UC Santa Barbara. It may be a colorless "townhome apartment," but it's cozy, and safe, and if you don't mind a maze of winding roads to the cul-de-sac it's in, it's beautiful green hill country and not too far from the ocean. Stacie's taking time off from the wildlife preserve; our daughter's on her way in March, or so our doctor tells us.

2. What things have you not yet learned to do that you think would be fascinating or useful?

Play guitar well enough to be proud of myself. Be consistently gentle and patient. Speak truly fluent Attic Greek. Make stunning cheesecake.

3. What do you need and/or want from your lover?

Love, and if I can be selfish, being understood consistently and tons of oral sex -- giving and receiving -- are also awesome. I am a very, very lucky man to have met kiarrh.

4. If you had to move to another country for one year, which one intrigues you the most?

Germany. The people, the philosophical tradition, the castles, the countryside.

5. What things did you learn about growing older that surprised you?

I don't mind growing old. At all. The things I've lost with age, I really don't miss, at all. I don't miss my youthful certainty. I don't miss the endless energy and eager naivete.

Recommend the best to me:

1. I'd like to try new things, learn more, escape now and again, see festivals, read something brilliant, hear cool music. Will you recommend a few things I might enjoy?

Come to Tarpon Springs for Epiphany, and watch the divers search for the cross. Pick up a few albums by Angelique Kidjo, Leonard Cohen, Mike Oldfield, and the Avenue Q soundtrack. Read Tuesdays with Morrie, Lessons From The Light by Kenneth Ring and Ray Moody, and some of Frank Zappa's interviews, preferably the longer and deeper ones. Also, consider a road trip out to St. Augustine, to walk about the old town.

2. Give me a character's name for my writing.

Donovan.

3. Give me something new to drink.

Ever had horchata or tamarindo?

4. Give me words that are relevant to you.

"And I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair
With a love so vast and shattered, it will reach you anywhere
And I sing this for the captain whose ship has not been built
For the mother in confusion, her cradle still unfilled
For the heart with no companion, for the soul without a king
For the prima ballerina who cannot dance to anything."
- Leonard Cohen

5. Give me a subject to research.

The history of the electric guitar.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendations! I do love St. Augustine...the quaint shops and the patio restaurants with folks playing the guitar and singing outdoors. It's been too long since I've been there.